Skip to main content

About thttpd - tiny/turbo/throttling HTTP server Configuration

By
I am newbie for HTTP servers, so I may miss technical words while writing about thttpd web server. I got simple config file from thttpd site
Which is easy for get going, I was in need to put .gif and .jpg images on my pages, which are tested on other webserver boa where all the pages were coming with CSS formating and images. With new installation of thttpd .jpg images and .gif images were not seen and also CSS formating was missing. I discovered about localpat variable from thttpd, one has to give path in configuration file as
localpat=**.gif|**.png|**.jpg
to appear images. All images should be read only format. one can use $chmod 644 *.* command to make files read only.
About CSS, just change the format to read only and keep it in www or html folder it starts appearing. well there is not much documentation on the site, hope you will not spend time in digging the things again.

my configuration file looks as below
dir=/usr/share/html
cgipat=/cgi-bin/*.cgi
pidfile=/var/run/thttpd.pid
localpat=**.gif|**.png|**.jpg

some nice Features to list about thttpd

thttpd is a simple, small, portable, fast, and secure HTTP server.

Simple:
It handles only the minimum necessary to implement HTTP/1.1. Well, maybe a little more than the minimum.
Small:
See the comparison chart. It also has a very small run-time size, since it does not fork and is very careful about memory allocation.
Portable:
It compiles cleanly on most any Unix-like OS, specifically including FreeBSD, SunOS 4, Solaris 2, BSD/OS, Linux, OSF.
Fast:
In typical use it's about as fast as the best full-featured servers (Apache, NCSA, Netscape). Under extreme load it's much faster.
Secure:
It goes to great lengths to protect the web server machine against attacks and breakins from other sites.
It also has one extremely useful feature (URL-traffic-based throttling) that no other server currently has. Plus, it supports IPv6 out of the box, no patching required.

source acme.com
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Dotnet, .Net 3.5, 2.0, C# Interview Questions

By
Few questions on dotnet, C# 2.0, 3.5 On Object oriented concepts 1)What is inheritance with e.g 2)What is polymorphism -function overloading -Function overriding -virtual keyword use -Static keyword and use -Abstract classes -Interface -Object 3)What is threading and how do we use in realtime application(cognizant) 4)What is threadpooling, lock, monitor(write code sample) 5)Architecture of current project 6)Session state, diffrent types of state management. 7)What is Application_Start, how it works. 8)Type of authentication in asp.net 9)How to configure ASP.NET application. 10) What is Impersonation. 11) What is WebService, WSDL, UDDI, Discovery, asmx files. 12) How to implement WebService and use it. 13) When to use WebServices. 14) WPF, how to implement(BOA) 15) Testing concvepts. 16) Test attributes 17) Flow of Automation Test Method execution 18) Features of dotnet 3.5 19) CLR, garbage collection 20) Finally block 21) Manifest, Metadata, MSIL 22) Assemblies, Type of assemblies, str...
2 comments
Read more

Remote debugging for ARM target board

By
Remote debugging for ARM target board With GDB one can both trace and modify code and data flow, and otherwise analyze the behavior of code, without explicitly changing any of it. Rather than run a full-blown instance of GDB on the target platform, you can use GDBserver , a program that lets you run GDB on a different machine than the one on which your program is running. The advantage of using GDBserver is that it needs just a fraction of the target resources that GDB consumes, because it implements only the low-level functionality of the debugger -- namely setting breakpoints and accessing the target processor registers and read/write application memory. GDBserver takes control of the application being debugged, and then waits for instructions from a remote instance of GDB running on a development workstation. Remote target needs to have debugging stub (gdbserver), The gdbserver is also referred to as the 'stub' and must be cross-compiled for that targ...
3 comments
Read more